Critic Reviews

• Christy Lemire, Associated Press

  The best parts of this dud are the ones in which she's singing. This is what she does best. This is what she should stick to. Save your money and watch her videos for free on cable music-television networks.

• , Time Out

  This fails to convince on several levels: Carey's assumed edginess; Beesley's faltering Brooklyn accent; turns from such celebs as rapper Da Brat and soul vocalist Eric Benet; the half-hearted '80s references and the haphazard retro effects.

• , Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  Glitter lacks sparkle.

• Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

  A vehicle that tarnishes as you watch it, leaving this troubled chart-topper lost in a sea of drunken, maudlin cliches.

• Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com

  Total escapism without a shred of believability.

• Megan Rosenfeld, Washington Post

  We don't have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we'll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts.

• Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

  Too washed-out and worthless to even be so bad it's good.

• Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

  Yet another tailor - made movie for a singer with a waning music career.

• Guylaine Cadorette, Hollywood.com

  Nothing redeemable could possibly have come out of Kate Lanier's ill-fated script.

• Mark Halverson, Sacramento News & Review

  Vondie Curtis-Hall tries to invigorate the bland script by careening his cameras throughout the streets and club life of Manhattan while Carey's glorious voice is drowned out by sheets of off-key cliches.

• Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel, 3BlackChicks Review

  A guilty pleasure.

• Colin Kennedy, Empire Magazine

  Heroically bad.

• Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian

  A disaster like no other, Glitter has as its jaw-dropping highlight what I have to believe is the only scene of seduction by vibraphone ever filmed.

• Tyler Hanley, Palo Alto Weekly

  Mariah Carey should have taken an acting class from Marky Mark Wahlberg. The first lesson: start small.

• Rebecca Murray, About.com

  It was almost physically uncomfortable watching the performances in Glitter.

• James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

  your standard-issue "I turned around and I was famous" melodrama, set in an implausibly wholesome-looking 1983 club world, where most of the folks dress oddly, but generally are just about as nice as pie.

• Collin Souter, eFilmCritic.com

  If nothing else, at least it killed a career. Max Beesely looks like a porno Luke Skywalker...The Shaggs had more talent.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  It's so badly botched that it's entertaining ... for all the wrong reasons.

• Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

  If poor Mariah Carey suffered a well-publicized breakdown prior to the release of this disposable display, imagine what she'll feel like to learn that she may have appeared in one of the worst ill-advised pointless flicks of the year.

• Mark Dujsik, Mark Reviews Movies

  So blatantly takes every bit of its formula to the furthermost extremes, it becomes a comedy.

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